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by syzarian 4y ago
There are obvious examples in history where it really is getting worse and then things get better. How do you know that Rosy Retrospection applies in this case?
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I wasn’t referring to you. I know that it probably looked like it. I was trying to explain to jupp0r how some Americans view punishment in the U.S. As a whole this country is quite vengeful and we sometimes take personal responsibility
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In the U.S. people often times are viewed as getting what they deserve for decisions made during periods of non-hyper vigilance. In our quest for an Ayn Randian paradise we believe it is a person’s fault if they aren’t hyper vigilant at al
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We are in agreement then. What typical Americans label radical left is not at all radical in most other rich nations and what we call right wing is considered extreme right wing in most other nations. You haven’t been radicalized, what ha
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Universal healthcare, paid parenting leave, much more subsidized higher education, more investments made into social programs, higher investment in infrastructure, much better environmental programs, much less militaristic, much lower inca
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We weren’t in a recession then and aren’t in one now. At any rate, your responses were a sidestepping of the issue I brought up and when pointed out to you your response wasn’t to acknowledge this.
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The paradox of tolerance is worth reading about. The center of American politics have very much moved to the right the past 50 years. As such, a small rightward shift from the mean has the appearance of being moderate. What is considered
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What some progressives say. In the U.S. no dispassionate person can believe that the radicalization of white men isn’t overwhelming right leaning. Right after the quotes you have is written: Richard V. Reeves, a British American scholar o
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That was the author, briefly stating, what some progressives think. The author neither endorses or condemns said viewpoint. Before this sentence the author writes briefly what some conservatives think. Right after the sentence the author
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The issue at hand (that I originally brought up) is that a lot of people claimed Biden was wrong to say we are not in a recession. Those people are wrong. I said as much in my original post.
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I have no idea what you wrote means and it certainly does not pertain to what I wrote. There is a very real crisis going on with men in the U.S. (and the world according to the article). It needs to be addressed. One consequence of margi
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I think it is indisputable that the Republican party of today is vastly different than it was in 1980. It is a historical fact that marginalized men are prone to radicalization. It is bad for a society to have so many young men who are no
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You have entirely sidestepped the issue at hand. What you bring up is a different issue. Is it possible for you to stay on point?
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Some months ago a lot people on this site claimed Biden was full of it when he said we aren’t in a recession. I wonder how many will admit to being wrong on this.
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I suggest a better response to CICO is not that this isn’t true but that it is hard for a variety of reasons. One’s response to CICO ought not be to deny basic physics. There was a comment that it is basic physics that CICO is true and it
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It’s a nice follow up. I think it is worthwhile to point out some counter intuitive results that happen in the absence of choice. Check out this post: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/20882/most-unintuitive-ap.
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This does not dispute the fact that if the energy input into the system exceeds the energy expended then weight gain occurs and if the energy into the system is less than the energy expended then weight loss occurs. It may be hard to balan
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If metabolic rate changes due to caloric restriction then this doesn’t negate the view that basic physics dictates that calories in minus calories out determines weight loss. It just means that a corresponding change to calories out can oc
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Understood. I wasn’t trying to address lisper’s directly as such. My poorly stated goal was to point out that intuition regarding uncountable sets is shaky at best. There are weird results regardless of one’s views because of nonstandar
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I’m not a logician or set theorist. I studied commutative algebra and, naturally, accept the axiom of choice. When you say, ”the actual reals” I think you mean the standard notion of a real number that we all are used to using. But tho
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The notion of countable and not countable does have some nuance. In the models that every real is definable that model, from within, believes it is uncountable since there is no bijection with a countable set from within that model. Howev
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You don’t know enough set theory and model theory. Of course there are different models of the real numbers. There are non isomorphic models of the first 4 axioms of Euclidean geometry even. A given set of axioms can have lots of differe
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There are well defined models of the real numbers. You don’t know enough mathematics to comment intelligently on this topic. What you wrote above makes no sense. EDIT: There is no least real number under the standard ordering. There is
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There are models of ZFC in which every real number is definable. You may be interested in the top answer at this mathoverflow.net question: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44102/is-the-analysis-as-...
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Your post doesn’t make sense mathematically. As a function from the reals to the reals the function f(x) = x+1 doesn’t “include negative infinity” (have no idea what that is supposed to mean). Negative infinity is not a real number and is
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Consider the interval (0, 1). This set of real numbers contains no smallest element. It is not true that all sets of real numbers have or should have a least element. It is a property of the standard model of the nonzero integers that al
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The fat people in the pic aren’t carrying the sign calling for those actions. We don’t know if they agree with those sentiments or not. I mentioned this in my post. It doesn’t pass for humor in my view. It’s just a dumb, childish retort.
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Man who pretends to care about women’s issues makes comment about the looks of the women and not on the merits, or lack thereof, of their points. Note that we can’t see what sign the women he refers to are carrying nor can we tell how fat
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The teaching of math has not caught up with the computational reality we live in. Computers are ubiquitous and most of what is taught in basic algebra classes is taught due to legacy reasons. Very few equations can be solved by hand and th
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There are scenarios where it is reasonable that a person makes a throwaway account to make this comment. Suppose the commenter is well known on this site and works for a business that primarily caters to right leaning people in the U.S. S

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